Elizabeth+Strazdas

On November 19, 1924, 38-year-old homemaker Elizabeth Strazdas (nee Aukstikalnis), a Lithuanian immigrant, died at Chicago's Mother Cabrini Hospital from complications of a criminal abortion performed that day. The person responsible for Elizabeth's death was never identified.

Elizabeth, wife of Peter Strazdas, was the daughter of George and Petronelle (Zelenskia) Aukstikalnis.

Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see [|Abortion in the 1920s].

For more on pre-legalization abortion, see [|The Bad Old Days of Abortion] Source:


 * [|Homicide in Chicago Interactive]

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